Awakening His Lady by Kathrynn Dennis Read Free Book Online

his nakedness, undeterred by the cold. “Marry me, my Meri. Bring a dead man back to life.”
    Meriom bolted to her feet. He expected she would throw her arms around him, and sob with happiness.
    But what he got from Meri was never what he quite expected.
    Her open palm smacked his cheek—his cheek, the only part of his body that didn’t already hurt.
    â€œYou oaf. Why the disguise? Did you think I would stop loving you because of this?” She swept her hand skimming over his scarred and battered body. “I loved you from the day I’d fallen off my pony and you picked me up and dusted off my muddied skirts and wiped my bloodied chin like I was the Queen of England. How could you think for a moment that scars and broken bones would matter?”
    Thomas rubbed his cheek. “I—”
    â€œI’ll show you, le broyeur , a woman who was crushed to think you dead, who’d rather sleep alone in a nunnery for the rest of her life than live without you.”
    She jerked her gown and chemise over her head and kicked off her shoes. Standing there with her hose around her ankles, she was as naked as he was. Beautiful and luscious in her fury. “Now, come to bed, Thomas Addecker. We’ve three years of practice to make up for before we are married. You are well enough recovered.”
    Thomas laughed, a deep, hearty laugh, the kind of laugh he’d not experienced in years. He raised Meri’s hand to his lips and kissed each fingertip, pausing to examine the gold ring on her middle finger.
    Sadness filled her eyes. Her voice cracked. “When the picker man brought it to my father, my heart broke in two…Thomas how…?” She raised her gaze to him in quiet appeal.
    â€œâ€™Twas the night before Bouvines…” he said, pausing, searching for the words, thinking of Galvon. “A frightened, desperate thief. May God forgive him.” he added softly.
    The tears he had been waiting for finally came pouring forth, streaming down her cheeks in rivulets. She lowered herself to the bed, drawing Thomas down with her, pushing him to lie on his back. “Enough of the past. Tomorrow morn, I wish to reawaken free of grief and sorrow, filled with love and hope instead. My Thomas lives, and he’s been too long from England.”
    Thomas smiled. “And here I shall stay, with you, my love, forever.”
    Meri straddled him, the look in her eyes anything but sleepy.
    He leaned his head back, joyous with the rapture imparted by his Meri’s kisses.

 
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    Kathrynn Dennis is so excited to be writing for Harlequin Historical UNDONE! Like most romance writers, she is an avid reader of the genre, and has been reading Harlequin Historicals since she was old